Thoughts on Junkenstein's Revenge?

How long has this game been out? 6 years or so? And we’ve had Junkenstein’s Revenge every single year. How is it that Blizz hasn’t swapped the mode out or at least made a new map for it? This mode is staler than an open bag of chips. Does anybody even play this gamemode once you’ve gotten all of your lootboxes from first wins?

edit: imagine if OW2 had a Halloween event that adds a Junkenstein themed campaign of like 3 missions or something

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That is sort of the intent behind having the mode out only once a year. You are not expected to get stale on it super fast. I want to say the first 2-3 yrs it was pretty okay, but yeah its gotten stale. Though that is OW in general and really any game. 2500hrs in will do that to anyone lol

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I’m just baffled they haven’t made an official all-heroes mode we can earn exp from…

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To be honest, a new event would be way more useful than a new deathmatch map. No one was asking for a new deathmatch map. But we are talking about Activision Blizzard, so…

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It is so unbelievably boring that after one or two games during my first Overwatch Halloween (2017) I never played it again unless a friend pressured me to do so.

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The problem is that “All Heroes” is too easy regardless of how difficult the settings were for Junkenstein’s Revenge/Endless, making such a mode nothing but a XP farm.

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So do what the player-created custom games do and set a cap on how much XP you can get from it. Doesn’t OW consider junkenstein to be a custom game anyway?

Oh, no… That is so different than right now… Glad we don’t have to deal with that issue.

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I wanted to get the achievement: play with 6 heroes in infinite. I queued for the lowest difficulty and I played 2 games in 45 min :tired_face: The last game was 25 min long!

That’s my thought.

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I was… FFA is like all I play anymore. That said, I did want to play Junkestein but after 20 min queue, I gave up and went back to FFA.

Boring. They should have add a new heroes already - Bride Sombra as an enemy boss maybe? Anything at this point would be better…

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Having ran it a bunch if we get a rando they always go Tracer or Genji and try to go down the mouth of all the Elites so it seems like business as usual.

Blizzard be like:
Yo! Want something different? Buy OW2

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A lot of people dont care at this point about it being easy or hard. Especially because its Pve. Do something new, and unlocking all heroes is doing something new without doing anything.

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Guess I got lucky because all of my main heroes already are included. Personally, I feel like a new map for the mode would’ve been fairly easy to throw together. Could even keep it in Eichenwalde, but in a different area with bots coming out of more doors etc. Some work is more work than no work though, so still would’ve required more effort than adding all heroes.

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:wink: Played it today as Torb, Soldier, McCree, Ana & Zen, to get the last points for the Genji skeleton skin. Somewhat boring, but sometimes (ok, once per year :stuck_out_tongue:) I am just happy for a really chilled, easy PvE game … :joy:

They should make a harder difficulty called insane mode, cause legendary is too easy

Still a fun mode TBH, I wish we got different maps or phases (Like if we lose the castle gate, there’s the throne room. Or a mode where we stop Junkerstein from making the monster, etcetc.).

Frankly, I suppose the PVE aspect helps. No need to deal with the drama of teammates throwing a salt-fest when things aren’t going their way.

I still remember when Junkenstein was coming the second year and people were hoping for something like this ahahaha.
How naive we were back then.

Well, OW2 at least solves some of that PVE aspect.